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• @cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 2026-04-27 20:28

  It's supposed to be progressive in the sense that it (sort of) supports people better than is typical, but it's also a nanny state where the supports and protections they offer are more about taking your freedom away than actual support and genuine progress. And vice versa, the conservative libertarian ideologies that are available on the other side of the ballot, emphasize personal freedoms but they are actually more about the rich getting richer while using personal freedoms as window dressing to distract you from the fact that they are making everyone else so much poorer that you won't have the money to access those freedoms anyway. Neither side is genuinely progressive. They just wear their freedom and generosity like superhero capes and then use them like a matador does to distract the charging bull of public opinion and make you blame the cape for it while they poke even more sharp things into your sides. Meanwhile we are bleeding to death.

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• @CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-27 19:35

  I live in Oregon witn a similar political makeup and its just the same up here which is why I have zero issues railing against Democrats. Most of them share much of the same ideology with someone like George W Bush when it comes to actual legislation, yet when the cameras are on they love to virtue signal and play up how "progressive" they are.

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